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Read Ebook: Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Lillibridge Will
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The Movement of Plants in Relation to their Wants 2
The Power of Movement in Animal and Plant compared 4
Advantages of Cross-Fertilization 6
Potency of the Sexual Elements in Plants 6
Experiments in Crossing 8
The Struggle for Existence among Seeds 9
Practical Application of these Views 9
Marriages of First Cousins 11
Development of the Two Sexes in Plants 12
Why the Sexes have been reseparated 14
Comparative Fertility of Male and Female Plants 15
Effect of Climate on Reproduction 16
Causes of Sterility among Plants 17
An "Ideal Type" or Inevitable Modification 18
Special Adaptations to a Changing Purpose 19
An Illustration 21
As interesting on the Theory of Development as on that of Direct Interposition 22
The Sleep of the Plants 24
Self-Protection during Sleep 25
Influence of Light upon Plants 28
Influence of Gravitation upon Plants 29
The Power of Digestion in Plants 31
Diverse Means by which Plants gain their Subsistence 34
How a Plant preys upon Animals 35
THE PART PLAYED BY WORMS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PLANET.
They preserve Valuable Ruins 42
They prepare the Ground for Seed 43
Intelligence of Worms 45
THE LAWS OF VARIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ANIMALS AND PLANTS.
Inherited Effect of Changed Habits 48
Effects of the Use and Disuse of Parts 50
Vague Origin of our Domestic Animals 52
Descent of the Domestic Pigeon 53
Origin of the Dog 55
Origin of the Horse 57
Causes of Modifications in the Horse 58
"Making the Works of God a mere Mockery" 59
Variability of Cultivated Plants 61
Savage Wisdom in the Cultivation of Plants 62
Unknown Laws of Inheritance 64
Laws of Inheritance that are fairly well established 66
Inherited Peculiarities in Man 67
Inherited Diseases 68
Causes of Non-Inheritance 69
Steps by which Domestic Races have been produced 71
Unconscious Selection 73
Adaptation of Animals to the Fancies of Man 74
Doubtful Species 75
Species an Arbitrary Term 77
The True Plan of Creation 79
Death inevitable in the Fight for Life 82
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